Willie Nelson

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Dear friends of the Nobelity Project,

You’ve probably heard about the “$100 Laptop”, the first, slightly-underpriced name given to Nicholas Negroponte’s magnificent little computer that was created and perfected for childen all over the world. After years of development, that computer has evolved into a laptop that exceeds all expectations. Rugged, consuming little power, it has two little “bat-ear” wifi antennae which surpass the wifi in our expensive laptops. It has a built-in still and video camera, tremendous software, ethernet and wifi internet access, and a full color LCD screen with daylight readable B&W mode. The XO laptop can indeed be powered by hand or foot, or by a.c. or solar power.

For the next ten days - until November 26 - the XO can be purchased under a lovely arrangement in which the purchaser - that’s you and me, I hope - has the earliest opportunity to buy one for a kid in your life, for a neighborhood school, or for yourself. The only trick - and this is the best part - is that you also buy one for a deserving child in a developing country. Each of those computers is $200, so for $400 plus shipping, you get to change two lives - one here at home, and one in a developing country. This first group of donated computers will go to Afghanistan, Cambodia, Haiti and Rwanda. We hope that the XO will eventually be in the hands of hundreds of millions of kids who are so eager to join the knowledge economy.

So even though the Nobelity Project is engaged in a fundraising campaign for our new movie, One Peace at a Time, we feel that this brief opportunity to reach out and change the world is too good to not recommend immediately to all who have supported our work.

This evening, Christy, Katie, Lily and I sat down together and logged onto www.laptopgiving.org, had a blast looking at the cool features of the XO, and together we became one of tens of thousands of American and Canadian families who have joined hands in this wonderful effort.

Every time I screen Nobelity, someone stands up after the film and says, “what can I do?” And the answer is very simple, you can do a lot. For the next ten days, you can Give One/Get One at www.laptopgiving.org

love and knowledge, pass it on…

Turk Pipkin
the nobelity project
www.nobelity.org

“We are moving from a world of haves and have-nots to a world of knows and know-nots.”
- Sugata Mitra, One Peace at a Time

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